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XCOPY vs ROBOCOPY

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:00:19 +0000

XCOPY vs ROBOCOPY: Which do you like? If you’re a command line jockey, both Windows tools have their place. Here’s how I decide when to use which one. Note: If you’re looking for a comparison of Robocopy and the third-party

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My Windows 8.1 experience

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:00:17 +0000

I installed Windows 8.1 last week to see how bad it really is. And? Well, it’s more stable than Windows Me, but Windows Me was a lot nicer to use. It’s awful. Because I listen to podcasts, I know that

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Where Microsoft lost its way

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000

John C. Dvorak wrote an analysis of how Microsoft lost its way with Windows 8 this week. All in all it sounds reasonable to me. His recollection of DOS and some DOS version 8 confused me at first, but that

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Don’t read too much into the PC sales drop just yet

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:06 +0000

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you probably know that new PC sales are in the toilet–out of the five biggest vendors, the only one whose sales managed to hold steady in Q1 2013 was Lenovo, while the

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Windows 8 won’t fail just because nobody likes Windows upgrades

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:12:22 +0000

John C Dvorak wrote today about the great upgrade upheaval, and argued that Windows 8 is doomed to fail because it’s just going to be too hard to upgrade, and nobody likes Windows upgrades anyway. I agree on the first

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Microsoft’s leaked roadmap

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:38:45 +0000

Microsoft is getting aggressive with Windows release dates, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s going to put a damper on future sales. Windows 8 is coming out in August, which was a poorly kept secret anyway. That can’t

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Microsoft: No x86 apps for ARM

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:10:20 +0000

So, The Register reports that Windows on ARM will not have compatibility with apps compiled for x86. Intel has been saying this for a while, while Microsoft has been mum. So now we know. There are arguments both for and

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Microsoft sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses; what does it mean?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:32 +0000

Steve Ballmer announced today that Microsoft has sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses, but anywhere from half to two-thirds of PCs are still running Windows XP and need to get with the program. He also continues to insist Windows 8

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A snapshot in history of Gates and Microsoft, 1992

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:33:04 +0000

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire is a 1992 autobiography of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. It’s old. But it’s a compelling snapshot of what the industry thought of Gates and Microsoft before Windows 95, before

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Disadvantages of Windows 98 and 98SE

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 21 May 2011 17:32:23 +0000

Many years ago, I wrote about the disadvantages of Windows 3.1 because I started noticing people searching for that. Now, I see people asking the same question about Windows 98. I spent 9 months of my life ripping Windows 98

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